The Arkansaw traveler., 1887-07-16

after lunch. The father is engaged in regretting something which it is now too late to recall. Cholera infantum has overtaken the younger child and the other is gathering lobelia for her father. The picture is wonderful in its conception and execution. One can see that he is Q poor fisherman, for he has not caught any fish, and the great agony he feels is depicted in his face and the altitude of his hair. The picture might have been called bat tle-piece or French interior, with equal propriety.
 Manet has several bright and cheery bits of color, among them No. 147, "Spring at Giverny," which might be called Fourth of July in a Roman candle factory without misleading the thoughtful art student.
 No. 156, "Meadows at Giverny," by the same man, is study in connecting the foreground and background of an oil painting by means of purple hay and dark-blue punches of boneset in such way as to deceive the eye.
 have always bitterly regretted that while I was abroad I did not go to Giverny and see the purple hay and navy blue tansy and water cress which grow there in such great abund- ance. How often we go hurrying through country, seeing the old and well-worn features shown us by the professional guides and tourists, for getting or overlooking more import ant matters, like scene in France, No. 142, entitled "Women Bathing." presume I was within three- quarters of mile of this view and yet came home without knowing anything about it.
 No. 123, "Diana Surprised," is no doubt the best picture in the whole collection. The tall and beautiful figure of Diana, in the middle dis tance, in the act of being surprised, is we'll calculated to appeal to any one with tender heart or few extra clothes. Diana has just been in swim ming with her entire corps de ballet, and on coming out of the water is sur prised to find that some one has stolen her clothes. The artist has very happily caught the attitude and expression at the moment when she was about to offer a reward for them. This picture is so true to life that I instinctively stammered, Excuse me-" and got behind the artist who was with me. The figures are life size and the attitudes are easy and graceful in the extreme. One very beautiful young woman in the middle fore ground, about seven and one-half inches north of the frame of the pie ture, with her back to the spectator, crouches at Diana's feet. She has done her beautiful and abundant hair in a graceful coil at the back of her head, but has gone no further with her toilet when the surprise takes place. The idea is lofty and the treatment beneficial. do not know that am using these terms as I should, but l am doing the best can.
 We often hear our friends regret that their portraits, dressed in cloth ing that has long since become obso- lete, arc still in existence, and though the features are correctly reproduced, the costume is now so ridiculous as to impair the de trop of the picture and mar it's aplom6.
 Jules Defebvre has overcome this great obstacle in a marvellous manner, and given us Diana and her entire staff, surrounded by an atmosphere that time cannot cloud with con- tumely or obscure with ridicule. Had the artist seen fit to paint Diana wear ing Garibaldi waist and very full skirt, with large hoops, and her hair wrapped around two large "rats," he might have been true to the customs and costumes of certain period in the history of art, but it would not have stood the test of time. As it is he has wisely chosen to throw about her certain air of hauteur which will look just as we'll in hundred years as it does now.
 The picture has massive frame, and would brighten up one end of a dining room very much. was deeply mortified and disappointed to learn that it was not for sale. Acteon is the party who surprised Diana. He is regarded in history as very unpopu- lar man.
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